Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) elaborated on his proposal to fund a border wall by using drug money from seized from El Chapo.

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Cruz argued opposition to the border wall and other initiatives from the Trump White House by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were being orchestrated only to appease a “radical left-wing base.”

“There is a radical left base that right now has Senate Democrats terrified,” Cruz said. “The reason a couple of weeks ago that the filibustered Neil Gorsuch — the first partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court justice in history — and Chuck Schumer’s left-wing radical base is demanding they oppose everything. So I think Chuck Schumer and the Democrats want a shutdown. I think they’re trying to provoke a fight. And Schumer is just trying to more and more unreasonable demands, trying to force a shutdown to appease those who want total resistance, total opposition, who don’t want the Trump administration to succeed.”